Besides musicxp which is great, I also find these sites occasionally useful to find out what processes seen in Task Manager do: http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm http://www.tasklist.org/ You usually don't want to terminate things randomly, but it may identify applications you were't aware of running in the background. This is also a good tool to determine what gets run every time you boot. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/autoruns.html If you see something listed that doesn't identify a manufacturer, it may be a piece of spyware. Jeff